East Anglian Chambers

Gaining confidence from experience

To support their decision, the group looked at other chambers in the region. They were running the same sort of software, but supported by one-man outfits, and which they weren’t comfortable with that at all.

Outsourced IT department

Since welcoming East Anglian Chambers as a client, we’ve acted as their outsourced IT department, offering responsive support as well as proactive advice on IT strategy and information security. In recent years, we’ve been busy helping the firm’s main headquarters at Ipswich upgrade its IT provision, and we also host the firm’s website, which allows enquiries, comments and training applications to be submitted online. 

Fully hosted solution

With no dedicated in-house IT manager, but a definite need for a solution they could rely on, East Anglian Chambers opted for a fully hosted solution from day one. All the group’s data and applications are hosted at our own datacentre, including Lex, a specialist application for legal case management running on a SQL server.

Business continuity management

Recently, East Anglian Chambers have opted to switch to Nutanix HCI – our fully software-based hosting solution that offers great performance as well as infinite flexibility and scalability. Since everything is 'virtualised' and software-based, clients never need to buy another server.

Nutanix also offers robust business continuity management: if disaster strikes in the form of a virus or malware attack, all the data on the server can be restored almost instantly, using a ‘snapshot’ from some time before.

That made perfect sense for East Anglian Chambers, who’ve had some hair-raising experiences in this area.

The group has selected our Alto package, which means a complete snapshot of their data is taken every six hours, and the most they can lose from a disaster is six hours’ work.

Overall, East Anglian Chambers are delighted with the support they’ve received.